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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
IiNdumiso 106:17
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Numbers 16:29-33, Numbers 26:10, Deuteronomy 11:6
Reciprocal: Numbers 16:31 - General Numbers 26:9 - General Psalms 21:9 - the Lord Psalms 56:1 - swallow Acts 7:36 - and in the wilderness
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,.... One of the heads of the conspirators against Moses and Aaron; the earth clave asunder under him and his company; opened itself, or its mouth, and devoured them at once. This was a new, marvellous, and unheard of thing, and which manifestly showed the divine displeasure and resentment at their proceedings; and served greatly to confirm the authority and office of Moses and Aaron; see Numbers 16:30.
And covered the company of Abiram; another of the heads of the confederacy. Korah is not mentioned, though the earth swallowed up him and all that belonged to him, their houses and their goods; some think the reason is because it was well known that this was his case, when Dathan and Abiram are not so expressly mentioned in the history by Moses; as also because the sons of Korah were now in esteem as singers; nor is On the son of Peleth mentioned, because, as Kimchi says, he repented, and desisted from the conspiracy.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
On these verses see Numbers 16:31-35. This refers to the time when they rebelled against Moses.
